Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-30

| ture in the White House is in the private
| dining room. The sideboard of deliberately
carved mahogany, made for the room, and
purchased by Mre. Hayes when mistress OF
the mansion, is there, and likewise the
side table and buffet made by President
Arthur's orders out of the dining table
(also of carved mahogany which had been
made by Mrs. Hayes orders at the same
time as the sideboard), and in similar
style.
President Arthur complained that the
carved legs of this table when he sat at it
for meals hurt his legs, so he had it div
ided and fashioned into the pieces of fur
niturs just named, and replaced it with a
large round table, which is still in the
room, and stands in the centre, and on 1t
meals are served. Two very old wooden
side tables, with highly polished surface,
are against the walls in this room. Side
lights, wholly made of the finest glass globes,
brackets, pipes, and all of fine rose shade,
are affixed to the walls. The wall paper and
the carpet are very handsome, and harmon
ize with the furniture, as the curtains do like
wise.
board, buffet and table would delight the
taste of connoisseurs for their quality and
form apart from their intrinsic value and the
associations that cluster about them. It
speaks we'll for the honesty of White House
employees that solid silver and gold table
and upward, some of it. Chance visitors are
never admitted to this room, for all day,
when President is living in the White
House, all these valuables are exposed on the
tables, &C., in this room. Some of the
silver WAS used during Monroe's admins
tratiOn. Some of the china in use since,
as it was during Lincoln's term, is there;
it is white, with Solferino border, and is
generally put on the table when the family
dine alone or have but one or two guests.
Part of the elaborate china service made and
decorated to order, bought by Mrs. Hayes
while in the White House, is arranged on the
buffets, and some of the larger plates are fas-
tened on the walls.
OF the Monroe silver there is a whole SER
vice, all of solid silver. Among the pieces,
all of which have beautiful shapes, are two
soup tureeus with covers. The tureens are
affixed to large oval-shaped, 6at-bottomed
stands spreading beneath them like walters.
These stands and tureens are all in one piece.
There are silver cake baskets, gravy boats,
arms for coffee, tea and hot water, and water
and syrup pitchers. There are fine glass
clarst jugs with silver topE, and a tea-
kettle of Furnished brass over lamp for
alcohol.
All the silver is very substantial look
ing. The silver Hiawatha boat, used as
central ornament for the table on State
occasions, stands on the buffet. This was
bought at the Centennial Exposition of
1876.
Mr. Van Buren's gold spoons and forks,
which were lively campaign issue while he
was President, are also on the buffet.
They are very plain indeed, and, like
all the silver, are marked Presidents
House."
All these valuables are carefully watched,
for the steward of the White House is res
sponsible for them to the government. He
gives heavy bond on taking his place,
and all the furniture, ornaments and other
United States property in the building is
under his charge, and he is directly respon-
sible for their care and preservation. No
President takes to the executive mansion
his own or his wife's silver, glass, china,
or household linen, as all these things
are provided by the government, and
private property must not be mixed with
them.
The wedding presents made to the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland are at Oak View, as
well as their other personal effects in the way
of silver, china, pictures and the like, ex-
cept perhaps few articles which they
keep in their private rooms at the White
House.
One of the contributors to the Newton
Graphic was 60 ardent an admirer of the
Ivory soap pictures that he "wreaked his
thoughts upon expression" J" and sent the fol-
lowing lines to the proprietors:
Messrs. Proctor 6 Gamble, out there in the West,
In the Ivory Soap busineSstgive rest,
We've saved all your pictures, and the best are the
last.
Though coming every week for many months past,
There no two alike, save in subject and scope;
Ever fresh as daisy. and all about soap
But it cannot last aways This merciless strain
Will bring on something, somehow, we dare not ex-
plain.
By the way, there are widowers pining to know
Which ladies are single, whose attractions you
show?
Such housekeeping, heart breaking, sensible lot,
Pray tell where they live, if you well not?
When there's enough to go round, and any spare,
You might send US cake, pair.
And the GRAPHIC of Newton will do all 1t can
To make it the soap for the family of Man.